John Ries (1958-2009) loved writing. He previously co-authored the non-fiction "In Alien Heat: The Warminster Mystery Revisited" with Steve Dewey. He lived in London, Warminster in Wiltshire, London again, and then Dawley, in Shropshire. Wiltshire and Shropshire were his spiritual homes. Ries was a well-respected IT professional, but continued to write in his spare time. A perfectionist, his stories and poems were seldom seen, even by his friends. Ries and his friends were amused by the appellation The Decadent Aesthetes; sometimes mildly decadent, often preposterous aesthetes, there is someth...